Vendu pour : 35 100 $

PROVENANCE
Watson Art Galleries, Montreal
Winchester Galleries, Victoria
Private Collection, Vancouver

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
A.Y. Jackson, A Painter’s Country: The Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson, 1958, page 70

When Albert Robinson met A.Y. Jackson in 1910, they quickly became good friends and, more importantly for Canadian art history, compatible sketching companions. They painted together in Europe before the First World War, and after it in the villages of Quebec that became so close to Jackson’s heart. He and Robinson were quite alike, easygoing and solitary, and happy to return the kind offer of a bed for the night and a meal with a sketch. “There was something about Robinson,” Jackson would note in his autobiography, “that melted all reserve as the frost disappears when the sun rises.”

Saint-Tite-des-Caps was a frequent subject for both artists. Here, Robinson has depicted the village blanketed in thick winter snow with the most distant rooftops on the hill being barely visible, almost obscured in a shroud of white. The church spire seems to assure us that the village is still there under all the whiteness, while a wagon and sleigh head down a path towards the village, the only indication of activity in this still, quiet winter scene.

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